Developer Steve Troughton-Smith has discovered a hidden one-handed mode keyboard in iOS.
Troughton-Smith managed to hack the iOS simulator to enable the keyboard. It's activated by edge-swiping and features shortcuts for cut, copy, paste, and undo. Notably, the keyboard has been there since iOS 8 but never enabled by Apple.
Today's fun hack (been there since at least iOS 8); the iOS keyboard has an unused left/right one-handed mode. Activated by edge-swipe
Take a look at a few screenshots below.
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Vaido - October 20, 2016 at 8:59pm
If i hard press and swipe from left edge to right I fast change to last program. Did not know that, always did this via multitasking. ;)
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JonP - October 20, 2016 at 10:19pm
Awesome just tried it and it worked. That's better then the app switcher to get to the previous app.
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waheb09 - October 20, 2016 at 8:41pm
I surprisingly like this
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Gabe - October 20, 2016 at 4:21pm
There's got to be a way of enabling this without hacking the phone.
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Shasmhoon - October 20, 2016 at 4:04pm
You have to hack the iOS simulator to enable it
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Deeb - October 20, 2016 at 3:37pm
Yes plz can someone tell us how to do it
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joshWUa - October 20, 2016 at 3:34pm
Wasn't this part of a cydia tweak? It wasn't hidden if Cydia devs came up with it first
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Tural Shirali - October 20, 2016 at 3:30pm
is there any way to activate it on any phone ?
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Butterspider - October 20, 2016 at 3:30pm
Ok so what is edge swipe? Can't seem to get this to work. Not understanding. Can someone add more detail for getting this? Thx
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Daniel Schneiter - October 22, 2016 at 9:19am
Press your finger at the left edge (screen changes and at the left edge displays another application). Then swipe to the right to switch to this other application. This probably only works on devices supporting Force Touch
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